Grady Booch: all that AI matrix math is just cleverly arranged NAND gates
Grady_Booch · x · 2026-10-17
Software legend Grady Booch quipped that if you look a few layers of abstraction down, all the matrix multiplications in artificial neurons are really just NAND gates arranged in a clever fashion — a deflating take on the "is AI real intelligence" debate.
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